Vaccine could delay bowel inflammation and colon cancer: research
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumors has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Their findings are reported this week in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.